Nearly 170 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR) were placed on paid administrative leave on Thursday, according to ...

Employees tasked with overseeing environmental justice initiatives at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could be placed on immediate administrative leave as soon as today, leaving them in limbo ...

WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency sent termination notices on Tuesday to staff who work on environmental justice programs at its headquarters and across regional ...

A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force. By Lisa Friedman The Trump administration has warned more than ...

Before Donald Trump became US president for the second time last month, one of his Republican allies revealed a plan to put US government employees “in trauma” so that they would leave their jobs. The ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Nearly 90% of EPA’s staff will be furloughed in the government shutdown. Research, new grants and permits, and ...

A sign of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency building in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Environmental justice efforts at the ten U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency confirmed on Thursday that 168 staff members in the Office of Environmental Justice were placed on administrative leave "as their function did not relate to ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. President Trump said the head of the Environmental Protection ...

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